The last commercial orange orchard in the San Fernando Valley, Bothwell Ranch, could become another cluster of luxury homes. L.A. City Councilman Bob Blumenfield says he’ll save part of the i…
naming the West Valley orchard a historic-cultural monument, but that status won’t legally prevent development. But it did, he says, draw attention to the effort to save some of the orchard.
Blumenfield said his office worked with California state senators, assembly members and neighbors to raise the funds to purchase the citrus orchard outright, but they were not able to come up with enough money to make a proposal to buy even a fraction of the land.According to Blumenfield, the owners are paying $30,000 a month just to water the orange trees, and they recently “threatened to turn off the water — and they would, because they’re not under any obligation to continue watering it.
The 14 acre Bothwell Ranch on the border of Tarzana and Woodland Hill, is the last commercial orange grove in the San Fernando Valley, June 20, 2022. The 14 acre Bothwell Ranch on the border of Tarzana and Woodland Hill, is the last commercial orange grove in the San Fernando Valley, June 20, 2022. Blumenfield said he was confident that the developer would keep untouched, and preserved, the agreed-upon protected part of the orchard.
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